Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in a Zen Buddhist Temple

CHAPTER I. BUDDHISM AND RHETORIC: FROM AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVEBuddhism in an Era of GlobalizationBuddhism in the West Buddhism and Technology Defining Buddhist Rhetoric The H temple and Its Unique Buddhist Rhetoric  CHAPTER II.  A BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN ZEN BUDDHISM IN THE UNITED STATESBrief History of Modern Zen Buddhism in the West Modernization of Buddhism on A Global Scale The Introduction of Buddhism to Ohio and the L city Temple Setting and Activities Temple Operation and Communication Articulating Buddhist Rhetoric in the H temple: on the Intersection of Culture, Communication, and Rhetoric Viewing the H temple as both Intercultural and Rhetorical Competing Ideologies in the H temple: When East meets West Observing the H temple as a Practitioner and Cultural CriticCHAPTER III.  THE TEMPLE'S PARADOX: MAINTAINING CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN THE DISCOURSE OF MODERNIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATIONThe Uniqueness of the Family Temple as An Ideograph The Married Abbot and Spousal Transmission: Pragmatism of American BuddhismThe Role of abbot N: More than Just a Temple Wife and as IdeographsSunday Morning Dharma School: A Buddhist Moral EducationFrom Dharma Teaching to Moral EducationSangha: This is Where We BelongCommunity Building through MembershipSeeing through the Ideographs: A Democratic American Buddhism ...CHAPTER IV.  CONSTRUCTING BUDDHIST IDENTITY AT THE H TEMPLE Technology at the H temple and Identity ConstructionChallenges from the CyberspaceA Buddhist Identity via TechnologyDealing with the Secret Buddhist Identity: Being Rational and Trusting YourselfThe Secret Buddhist IdentityMix-and-Match Buddhism for Individual NeedsThe Power of Naming: Rituals, Members, and ObjectsExperiencing Dharma Names in a Foreign DiscourseWhen Names Are Transplanted: An Orientalist ApproachTemple as the Sacred Space in Constructing IdentitySacred Gaze in the Sacred Space New Dimensions and Meanings of the Buddhist Identity 

Fan Zhang is an instructor at Xi'an International Studies University. Her areas of work interest include intercultural communication, critical rhetoric, religious communication, gaming, media and technology. She obtained her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University, and her work has been published in the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (2015). Her paper "Remaking Ancient Virtues for the Virtual World: A Case Study of the Voice of Longquan" was among the finalists in the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) Honors Graduate Student Seminar in 2014.